Tag: Australian Poetry
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Slam poetry spectacular
The search is on for Australia’s 2022 poetry slam champion!
Cheer on the Victorian finalists in an electric live event...
Sunday essay: How leftist, feminist poet Dame Mary Gilmore became ‘Aunt Mary’ in the PM’s political narrative
Images: Wikimedia Commons and AAP/EPA/Erik S. Lesser
Dame Mary Gilmore died at 97 in late 1962, two and a half years before the birth of...
Anthems, ‘ranthems’, and otherwise loves: nationalism in Australian poetry
Dorothea MacKellar’s My Country, with its paen to a
sunburnt landscape, excoriated Australians for their nostalgic love of
English ‘grey-blue’ countryside and English...